As part of an information offensive in Iraq, the U.S. military is secretly paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by U.S. troops in an effort to burnish the image of the U.S. mission in Iraq.Iraqis will never trust us. Americans shouldn't trust us, either.
The articles, written by U.S. military "information operations" troops, are translated into Arabic and placed in Baghdad newspapers with the help of a defense contractor, according to U.S. military officials and documents obtained by the Los Angeles Times.
I am too young to ever have known when integrity was an admired quality in people, as I was born 2.5 years after Nixon resigned. I came into this world after truth was no longer relevant to life, when lying was just another SOP, and when deceit and corruption were encouraged and applauded. And now, we've become so uncivilized that arguing over children's books is standard American political "discourse."
Will America ever return to sanity again?
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